On a weekend afternoon, a movie that a person watched quietly should be a good movie.
It’s been a long time since I went to see a movie seriously and completely. Although I have watched a lot of so-called blockbusters recently, only this inconspicuous film gave me a refreshing and emotional feeling.
At first I thought it was a very commercial, cliché, and Hollywood-style gunfight, police and gangster film, but it gradually entered the film without knowing it, and unexpected accidents kept happening. Blake Lively appears in the film, even surprisingly, her character is addicted to drugs, frivolous, vulgar, and has a hot sex scene, thanks to this gangster eldest woman who has very few scenes, otherwise I really doubt that this drama will affect her acting career.
"City of Thieves" is a crime drama written, starred and directed by handsome Ben Affleck. If you thought it was going to be a simple thug bank robbery story, you would be wrong. . This group of wicked people living in the notorious Charles Town of Boston vividly and vividly deduces the father-son relationship, brotherhood and great love in the story, which is extremely provocative; It is endless; there are also box office elements such as blood, sex, hockey, etc. It can be said that Xiaoben (director) can't wait to have a hodgepodge, literature + love + action + plot, it can be seen that he spent a lot of effort in the script creation, and he couldn't help but think Deeply impressed by Ben Affleck's level, the romantic theme of the film with a strong sense of patchwork was not launched until the end, which seemed to let the audience understand what he really wanted.
"It's not enough to terrorize someone, you have to fuck them too?" This is the best line in the movie, when the heroine knows that the person she loves is the robber who is holding her (the bank manager) hostage a sentence.
When he wanted to start over and didn't want to have a desperate career, his brother who had been convicted and jailed for nine years for venting his anger pulled a gun at him, and he threw a sentence: "You want to shoot me? Please, But shoot me in the back too!".
"I want you to come, it's like a sunny day for me!" These are the affectionate words of the heroine Claire to Doug, who is about to flee.
The scene when James was surrounded by the police, hid behind the trash can, and leaned over to pick up the coke cup thrown on the ground and drink.
Claire suddenly dug out a handbag full of banknotes in the small flowerbed, saw a letter, and the background sound was Doug saying goodbye, then she took out a brightly colored orange from the banknote layer and slowly put it on her nose. Before sniffing a meaningful paragraph.
These bridges and lines are like those fringe embellishments in a dish full of color and flavor, fine, perfect, and gorgeous.
The funny thing is that the two leading actors in the film, Doug (Ben Affleck) and James (Jeremy Renner), are brothers and the robbers are very much like my favorite Arsenal striker. Van Persie and Bendtner. Doug shouted to the gardener angrily: It's not what your era looks like now, just like Van Persie lost the ball and was irritated to chase the midfielder to bring down the opponent; James' smiling face with a gun and confident Di Bendtner scored. The celebration behind the ball is exactly the same.
It should be said that in the American film market where bad films and commercial films are rampant, this should be a very outstanding film. The director has put a lot of effort into the connotation and plot. He wants to express a lot, but the method seems to be just passing by. It's a matter of course, the control effect is very good, and the sense of rigidity is not obvious at all. After watching it, my first impression was to pay tribute to Ben Affleck. The confidence and intelligence he showed in this work really deserves the audience's applause.
I know that the director didn't want to relieve or downplay the robbers and guilt, or he wanted to subvert or challenge something. He just wanted to have another interpretation of heroes, cops, gangsters, chivalry, and love. Like the gardener said, I see the shadows of your fathers in you, yes, Doug was a hopeful star of professional hockey many years ago, and finally fell into such a miserable situation, is this fate? James said that he was proud of being a Charlestown native, one was the recognition of the choice, and the other was the helplessness and struggle of the choice. What I want to say is that it is unfair that fate is given to everyone. Sometimes because of their motherland, family and living environment, they are destined to not succeed, to stand out, and to achieve their goals, but we can still feel these people. Their charm, stealing also has a way, everyone has a shining moment and place.
This side or the other. No matter here or abroad, I believe that each of us wants to be the real self, a different self. If there is no reality, it will be realized in dreams. What's more is love, let's not think it's so absurd and bizarre that Claire fell in love with the person who kidnapped her, and don't think it's naive and ridiculous that Doug immediately repented and repented because he spent a leisurely afternoon with Claire. It was so great. For the first time, Doug left Boston, where he was born and raised, and began to look for another life. He began to try a different self, a different possession, just like the splendid afterglow at the end of the film, although it came late, Short-lived, but also eternal.
As long as it is what we want, no matter how long or how late, as long as we get it, we should actually feel more fortunate.
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